Drag Queen History Hour
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Monday. There have also been several legal challenges to the trigger laws set to go into effect in states like Louisiana and Utah once the court overturned Roe last Friday.
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. In honor of the drag queens of color like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were central to the fight for LGBTQ equality, we walk through the history of drag and politics.
We talk to actor and activist Terence Smith about his iconic presidential campaign as his drag persona, Joan Jett Blakk. RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Peppermint tells us about how she’s used her platform to advocate for the queer community. And Taylor Alxndr of Southern Fried Queer Pride explains how they use drag as a tool for political organizing in their community.
Show Notes:
- AP: “Supreme Court backs coach in praying on field after games” – https://bit.ly/3ypzc3B
- Joan Jett Blakk in “The Beauty President” – https://vimeo.com/639178680
- Donate to Crooked Media’s Pride Fund – https://crooked.com/pride/
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| 0:00.0 | It is Tuesday June 28th. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Trevell Anderson and this is what a day, featuring news that hits harder than |
| 0:12.3 | a gentle hand does on Rudy Giuliani's that. |
| 0:15.3 | Yes, don't know if you saw, but Rudy claims he was assaulted in a grocery store this Sunday. |
| 0:20.3 | More so, he was touched. |
| 0:22.3 | Why try to give you headlines in the same way Rudy experiences light touching? |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah, I don't think about it too much just accepted. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, I am going to take over most of the episode to revisit the political roots |
| 0:36.6 | of drag as Pride Month wraps up. |
| 0:39.3 | That's right, drag goes deeper than just RuPaul's drag race. |
| 0:42.9 | Yes, stick around for that. |
| 0:44.2 | But first, the Supreme Court issued more rulings yesterday, including one pertaining to Joseph |
| 0:48.4 | Kennedy, a former public high school football coach in Washington State. |
| 0:52.6 | In a six three decision, the court ruled in favor of Kennedy, saying that his right to |
| 0:56.2 | Neil and Prey on the field after games was in fact protected by the first amendment. |
| 1:01.6 | This comes after the court ruled last week that the state of Maine could not exclude religious |
| 1:06.0 | schools from a tuition program. |
| 1:07.8 | So no, you are not just sensing a pattern here. |
| 1:10.6 | We'll have a couple links to more on this story in our show notes to explain it more in |
| 1:15.0 | depth. |
| 1:16.0 | Listen, Gideon, I love God like the next person, but I need them to calm down. |
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